Monday, December 20, 2004

Colorado Water MakesMeRalph: "New Mexico Senator Pete 'I'll make him an offer he can't refuse' Domenici says that more needs to be done on a federal level to fix western water problems." 12:47:25 PM

Social Security Deep Blade Journal: "President Bush plans to spend his political capital in order to fulfill a long-time Republican dream of crushing the Social Security program. This sport is as old as Alf Landon's 1936 attempt to unseat President Roosevelt. Landon's big-newspaper supporters threw up all sorts of scare tacticts against Social Security in that thankfully losing effort." Coyote Gulch wonders where the President and Congress get any credibility on economic issues? Josh Marshall: "So many progressive organizations out there with time on their hands. Which one will put together the online database listing where every representative and senator stands on Social Security? Who supports the program, who wants to phase it out, and who's keeping their cards close to their vest, trying to figure which way the wind will blow?" 7:34:36 AM

2008 Presidential Election Here's an article from the the Rocky Mountain News about Wellington Webb's run for the Chair of the Democratic Party [December 20, 2004, "Webb stresses Western ties"]. From the article, "They're both rivals for the job now and were on stage together in Florida for one of a series of forums that will whittle down the long list of contenders before a vote in February. More than 400 Democratic National Committee members from every state will pick the new party chairman. Webb is making the case that as a Westerner, he knows all about how the party can win in Republican- leaning territory - the so-called 'red states' of the Rocky Mountains and South." Here's the coverage from the Denver Post [December 20, 2004, "Webb riding in DNC derby"]. They list the current crop of candidates, in addition to Webb: Jim Blanchard, former Michigan governor; Howard Dean, former Vermont governor; Martin Frost, outgoing Texas representative; Harold Ickes, former Clinton White House staffer; Molly Beth Malcolm, former Texas Democratic chairwoman; Tim Roemer, former Indiana representative." More stories on Webb's candidacy here and here from the Western Democrat. Update: Daily Kos: "Fox News is polling Hillary for obvious reasons -- it's red meat for their base." Update: Daily Kos: "NDN has sent out an email with their thoughts on the DNC chairmanship -- a job with clearly evolving qualifications." 6:49:14 AM

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